The Great Gatsby

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The Great Gatsby

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Gatsby Cocktail Party

• Quick Write 10 minutes
• Predict what you believe The Great Gatsby is
  about from hearing your line (and all the
  others).
• Must be ½ page to 1 pages in length!

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The Great Gatsby Cocktail Party

• IMAGINE You are going to a cocktail party!
• At a cocktail party you
• Circulate
• Talk to everyone
• Exchange bits of gossip and tell yours
• Listen to other bits of gossip
• Draw conclusions from the gossip

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Vocabulary List 1
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Privy to

• Adjective
• Made a participant in a secret, knowledge of

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epigram

• Noun
• Short call or remark saying

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perpetual

• Adjective
• Permanent, everlasting, ceaseless

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sinister

• Adjective
• Mysterious, evil

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Wistful

• Adjective
• Sad, regretful, thoughtful

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Supercilious

• Adjective
• Contemptuous, haughty, disdainful
• behaving or looking as though one thinks one is
  superior to others

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divan

• Noun
• Couch

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incredulous

• Adjective
• Disbelieving

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wan

• Adjective
• Sickly or pale

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Languid

• Adjective
• Slow, without energy

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hulking

• Adjective
• Bulky

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Infinitesimal

• Adjective
• Infinitely small, minute

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extemporizing

• Verb
• Improvising

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turbulent

• Adjective
• disturbed

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cynical

• Adjective
• Distrusting of the motives of others
• Holden Caulfield is a very cynical literary
  character. He hates everyone and thinks they are
  all phony!

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Intimation

• Noun
• Hint or suggestion
• He used intimation in order to subtly tell us he
  was leaving.

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epigram
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Do NOW

• Go to the library and pick up The Great Gatsby
• Come back and complete the Anticipation Guide
• Provide justification for your decisions on the
  back of the paper.

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Do Now Model Fitzgeralds Sentence Structure.

• 1) Two shining arrogant eyes had established
  dominance over his face and gave him the
  appearance of always leaning aggressively
  forward (7).
• Pattern 3 Adjectives NOUN (body part) verb
  noun and Verb
• 2) Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or
  the wet marshes, but after a certain point I
  dont care what its founded on (2).
• Pattern

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1

• Her thin, plaintive voice had caused disbelief in
  the crowd and gave her the sound that she was
  singing, pained through a funnel.
• Her big, sparkling, joyful smile had brought
  happiness over her face and gave her the
  impression of always loving life.

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2

• Wonder may emerge from a busy little ant, or the
  vast Grand Canyon, but if it is there, I dont
  care where it comes from
• Love may be sculpted in the hearts of ambitious
  dreamers or serene philosophers, but when it is
  formed youll find that all previous assumption
  will have been transformed.

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3

• And so with the chants of the crowd and my heart
  beating loudly, I had the familiar feeling that
  the show was about to begin.
• And so with the delicate, white veil and the
  slick, black tuxedo, just as it is dreamed of by
  little girls, I had a feeling my life was about
  to change forever.

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DO NOW Model Sentence Structure

• 3) And so with the sunshine and the great bursts
  of leaves growing on the trees, just as things
  grow in the movies, I had the familiar conviction
  that life was beginning again with the summer
  (4).
• Pattern
• Your Model Sentence

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Gatsby

• He smiled understandinglymuch more than
  understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles
  with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that
  you may come across four or five times in life.
  It facedor seemed to facethe whole external
  world for an instance, and then concentrated on
  you and an irresistible prejudice in yoru favor.
  It understood you just as far as you wanted to be
  understood, believed in you as you would like to
  believe in yourself, and assured you that it had
  precisely the impression of you that, at your
  best, you hoped to convey. Precisely at that
  point it vanishedand I was looking at an elegant
  youg roughneck, a year or two over thirty, whose
  elaborate formality of speech just missed being
  absurd. Some time before he introduced himself
  Id got a strong impression that he was picking
  his words with car (48).

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The Great Gatsby Character Analysis

• Jay Gatsby In the beginning of Chapter 1, Nick
  reflects on Gatsby
• If personality is an unbroken series of
  successful gestures, the there was something
  gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity
  to the promises of life, as if he were related to
  one of those intricate machines that register
  earthquakes ten thousand miles away. This
  responsiveness had nothing to do with that flabby
  impressionability which dignified under the name
  of creative temperament. It was an
  extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness
  such as I have never found in any other person
  and which it is likely I shall ever find again.
  NoGatsby turned out all right at the end it is
  what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in
  the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed
  out my interest in the abortive sorrows and
  short-winded elations of men.

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The Great Gatsby Character Analysis

• Daisy Buchanan In the beginning of Chapter 1,
  Nick reflects on Daisy
• For a moment the last sunshine fell with
  romantic affection upon her glowing face her
  voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I
  listenedthen the glow faded, each light deserted
  her with lingering regret, like children leaving
  a pleasant street at dusk
• Reread this description carefully.
• Focus on the diction and imagery as you state
  what you can determine of her character from this
  description. Be thorough and complete. Use
  phrases from the quotation in your discussion.
• What do we know about Daisy from simply the first
  two chapters?!

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Jay Gatsby

• On a separate piece of a paper, draw an image
  created in your mind from the imagery in the
  story. Break your image down into a series of
  images. The, discuss underneath your drawing
  What conclusions can you make about Gatsby? What
  predictions can you make about what has occurred?

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Quiz Part 1 Character Analysis

• No more than five people in a group.
• Analyze the following characters
• Nick Carraway
• George Wilson
• Myrtle Wilson
• Tom Buchanan
• Jordan Baker
• Find the quotation that best describes them in
  chapters 1 2
• Cite it using MLA citation
• What does the quotation show about that character?

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Daisy Buchanan

• For a moment the last sunshine fell with
  romantic affection upon her flowing face her
  voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I
  listenedthen the glow faded, each light deserted
  her with lingering regret, like children leaving
  a pleasant street at dusk.
• Reread this description carefully. Focus on the
  diction and the imagery as you state what you can
  determine of her character from this description.
  Be through and complete. Use phrases from the
  quote in your discussion.

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Gatsby Historical Background

• Review Significant aspects of the 1920s

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Prohibition

• 1919 18th Amendment
• Forced many law abiding citizens to consider
  breaking the law.
• Resulted in bootleggingthe sale of illegal
  alcohol become big business often run by gangs.
  (Gatsbys business)
• Speakeasies served bootlegged liquor and there
  was the creation of the underground pipeline from
  Canada to import alcohol illegally.

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Womans Suffrage

• 1920s 19th Amendment Womens right to vote
• More possibilities for woman equality, yet the
  concept of equality is new
• Jordan is the new woman as a golf star
• Daisy is a contrast to this as a more dependent,
  traditional woman.

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Post World War I Era

• Gatsby rumored connection to Kaiser Wilhelm II
  Last emperor of Prussia who lead Germany during
  the war.)
• There was a post war desire to return to
  normalcy
• War restrictions were lifted and there was a
  prevalent feeling of desire to enjoy life which
  permeated the social scene.
• Political outlook returns to isolationism high
  tariffs and no interest in foreign affairs.
• 1923 Investigators reveal wide spread corruption
  in Hardings administration.
• Gatsby refers to Wolfsheim fixing the world
  series.

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Social Change

• People moved off farms to the cities in record
  numbers.
• Majority of the population now lived in cities
  which meant more demand for social events.
• Rise in Movie theaters
• Movies
• Sporting events (baseball and golf)
• Radio Broadcasting.
• Night clubs
• Dance Halls

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Music

• Latest craze in music was jazz and dancing the
  Charleston

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Style

• Flapper styles
• Short skirts
• Bobbed Hair
• Rolled won silk Stockings were the latest fashion

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Post war Economy
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Distribution of Wealth
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Rise in Racism
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Anthology Check in

• Assignments you should have already collected
  (With Works Cited Information)
• Due Friday
• 4 American Speeches
• 1850-1900
• 1901-1945
• 1946-1980
• 10 quotations from famous Americans

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Works Cited Information

• Speeches
• Name Provide the speakers name.
• Title Then, give the title of the speech in
  quotation marks
• Meeting and Organization
• Location of the Occasion
• Date of delivery
• Stein, Bob. Computers and Writing Conference
  Presentation. Purdue University. Union Club
  Hotel, West Lafayette, IN. 23 May 2003. Speech.

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Anthology Check in

• Political Cartoons

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Political Cartoon
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American Art
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DO NOW Art / Political Cartoons Anthology

• Part 1 Describe your favorite of the four pieces
  of American art you should have brought today. In
  the same model of of Fitzgeralds writing (Just
  be very descriptive)
• Part 2 Then, explain why you chose it. What
  about it appealed to you? What spoke to you?

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Anthology Section Due Friday

• Works by fellow Clayton Valley Students
• A scene or screen play from an American
  playwright.
• 21March 22

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The Wasteland vs The Valley of Ashes

• Noun
• an unused area of land that has become barren or
  overgrown.
• a bleak, unattractive, and unused or neglected
  urban or industrial area
• the restoration of industrial wasteland
  figurative the mid 70s are now seen as something
  of a cultural wasteland. -

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The Wasteland

• Published in 1922.
• One of the most important poems of the 20th
  century

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The Wasteland vs The Valley of Ashes

• In Groups of three
• What is Fitzgerald representing through the
  valley of ashes?
• What is Eliot representing through The
  Wasteland?
• Discuss what you found similar and what you found
  different in the two images
• How are they projecting similar ideas?
• How do they differ?
• How are their tones similar?
• Write one sentence making a definitive assessment
  about the two images.

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The Wasteland vs The Valley of Ashes

• What could the eyes of Dr. T.J. Eckleburg
  represent?
• What and who are they watching?
• Why are they in the valley of ashes?

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What is plagiarism?

• Noun
• the practice of taking someone else's work or
  ideas and passing them off as one's own.
• Words belong to the person who wrote them. There
  are few simpler ethical notions than this one,
  particularly as society directs more and more
  energy and resources toward the creation of
  intellectual property (Gladwell 225).
• Doris Kearns Goodwin was found to have lifted
  passages from several other historian, she was
  fired from the Pulitzer Prize committee.
• To lift material, without my approval, is theft
  (227)

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Vocabulary List 2
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disheveled

• Adjective
• Disarrayed, disordered, messed up

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succulent

• Adjective
• juicy

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nebulous

• Adjective
• Hazy, unclear

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Colossal

• Adjective
• enormous

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denizen

• Noun
• inhabitant

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abortive

• Adjective
• Terminated prematurely

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Punctilious

• Adjective
• Attentive to detail

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harrowed

• Verb
• frightening

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Meretricious

• Adjective
• Showy, gaudy

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ineffable

• Adjective
• Beyond expression, indescribable, unspeakable

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notoriety

• Noun
• Fame, known widely

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prig

• Noun
• One who irritates by observance of proprieties to
  an obnoxious degree

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dilatory

• Adjective
• Slow, lingering

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libertine

• Noun
• One who leads a life unrestrained by morality

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Contingencies

• Noun
• Possibilities

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Septic

• Adjective
• Toxic, poison